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Python GUI Programming - A Complete Reference Guide

By : Alan D. Moore, B. M. Harwani
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Python GUI Programming - A Complete Reference Guide

By: Alan D. Moore, B. M. Harwani

Overview of this book

A responsive graphical user interface (GUI) helps you interact with your application, improves user experience, and enhances the efficiency of your applications. With Python, you’ll have access to elaborate GUI frameworks that you can use to build interactive GUIs that stand apart from the rest. This Learning Path begins by introducing you to Tkinter and PyQt, before guiding you through the application development process. As you expand your GUI by adding more widgets, you'll work with networks, databases, and graphical libraries that enhance its functionality. You'll also learn how to connect to external databases and network resources, test your code, and maximize performance using asynchronous programming. In later chapters, you'll understand how to use the cross-platform features of Tkinter and Qt5 to maintain compatibility across platforms. You’ll be able to mimic the platform-native look and feel, and build executables for deployment across popular computing platforms. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the skills and confidence to design and build high-end GUI applications that can solve real-world problems. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Python GUI Programming with Tkinter by Alan D. Moore Qt5 Python GUI Programming Cookbook by B. M. Harwani
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Title Page

Creating a database table

In this recipe, we will be learning to create a database table. The user will be prompted to specify the database name, followed by the table name that is to be created. The recipe enables you to enter column names and their data types. Upon clicking the push button, the table with the defined columns will be created in the specified database.

How to do it…

Here are the steps to create a GUI that enables the user to enter all the information for the database table to be created. Using this GUI, the user can specify the database name, column names, and choose column types too:

  1. Let's create an application based on the Dialog without Buttons template.
  2. Add five QLabel, three QLineEdit...